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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the third element for creating and defining theatre, according to the author, described as the life that an audience brings into the theatre every time a play is performed?
(a) Assistance.
(b) Truth.
(c) Repetition.
(d) Representation.

2. In the author's "formula" for creating and defining theatre, the first element is what?
(a) Representation.
(b) Repetition.
(c) Assistance.
(d) Truth.

3. Who wrote Sergeant Musgrave's Dance?
(a) Alfred Jarry.
(b) John Arden.
(c) Samuel Beckett.
(d) Sam Shepard.

4. The strongest comedy is rooted in what?
(a) Buffoonery.
(b) The magical.
(c) The absurd.
(d) Archetypes.

5. Who "influenced Europe for half a century through a couple of performances given in Hampstead in a church hall"?
(a) Gordon Craig.
(b) Antoine Artaud.
(c) Martha Graham.
(d) Samuel Beckett.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the third section of the book the author claims, "It is always the ______ theatre that saves the day."

2. Who does the author describe as perhaps the most idiosyncratic of all theatre artists?

3. Which chapter is the most autobiographical to the author?

4. The closer the actor approaches what, the more requirements he is asked to separate, understand and fulfill simultaneously?

5. The author contends that ______ "is a model of a theatre that contains Brecht and Beckett, but goes beyond both."

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the author speak of regarding Shakespeare and the Rough Theatre?

2. How does the author describe the difference between staging in "rough" theatre versus traditional theatre?

3. How does the author feel that Brecht approaches the "Holy"?

4. How does the author approach form and content between the actor and director?

5. What does the author write in regard to the power of laughter in "The Rough Theatre"?

6. In contemporary theatre, what does the author say is the most accessible way to find "holiness"?

7. How does the author view "pre-planning" in approaching a rehearsal process?

8. How does the author describe the difference between "Rough Theatre" and "Holy Theatre"?

9. How does Shakespeare embody both The Rough Theatre and The Holy Theatre?

10. What is the author's presumed opinion of the works and style of Brecht? How is Brecht similar to Shakespeare?

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